Disagree there Daller They have everyone brain washed into this whole “Peoples Champions” crap & their players get a free ride as a result. Look at the reaction to Keegan’s GPS incident last year. It was brushed off & laughed off in most quarters. If that had been a Dublin player, everyone would be calling for his head on a platter. Likewise CO’C. He is Captain Fantastic, the fearless leader of the plucky little underdogs, who put it up to the big, bad Dubs every year. There is not a hope his transgressions will be judged in the same light as anyone else’s.

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Talking of Kerry…their last league game is in Healy Park.
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If Galway continue as they have started, then that last game will be a dogfight in Healy park. Thinking if Tyrone need the 2 points to stay up and Kerry needed them to make league final, ideal scenario for the neutral.

Sean C was half-jokingly asked if the ‘05 Tyrone team could live with this Dublin side.

Can’t remember his exact answer other than they’d give them a rattle.

But got me thinking what a game that would’ve been.

A forward line of Peter C, S O’Neill, mulligan, McGuigan, Dooher and Sean C against these Dublin backs…and vice versa.

Both mobile and talented units. And hard.

Impossible to answer ofcourse.

I’ve said before that Dublin are the best side I’ve saw (so did SC last year)…so would give a begrudging nod to Dublin with the bench they have.

An interesting one, I don’t think Dublin ever developed much of a rash for Tyrone unlike Kerry, but who’s to say it couldn’t’ve happened if we had been closer rivals at that time? The style of play we had back then would’ve still suited yous down to the ground.
Also one would have had to divide the study into seperate periods - 2010-2012, Dublin’s style of play was very similar to Tyrone. We out-Tyroned yis in 2010 but I think yis were on the way down so couldn’t claim we bate the best of yis. 2011 was a whole other ballgame and of no use to the research. But if that was against Tyrone at their best there would have been little in it. We still didn’t have the variety and absolute belief that came much later. In 2012 any very top team would have taken us, certainly yous at yisser best.

2013-14, I think yis would have done to us pretty much what Donegal did that fateful day. Maybe even worse because Tyrone at their best still had a better forward unit than Donegal.
2015 I think it would have been touch and go, Gavin and Co were into their first year with the new style of play, we were still vulnerable like when Mayo came back from the dead in the drawn semi-final.
2016-17 I think we might have been a nose in front with the refined tactics and the pace added to the squad. Then again, Tyrone might only have reached the Qtr final stage or less some of those years!

I think the more interesting question is, what would’ve happened if Tyrone and Kerry had met in 2004, or 2006, or 07?

I think this is the sort of thing Mayo don’t need, but yet seem to want it, all this bullying and not being bullied Sh…, IMO I think it is pretty naive to think that hardened inter county footballers, be they from Dublin, Mayo or Kerry are going to be bullied. But I get the feeling that Mayo believe this is an important factor and at the end of the day all they are doing is distracting themselves.https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2018/0212/940189-mayo-galway-rivalry/

Maybe they are trying very hard to lose their sympathy status because they think it will help them win the big one. It’s a mixed up muddled ol crazy world out there Zig.